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lingo @lingo56.bsky.social · 4w ago

Kind of absurd to be reading thoughts on "agentic computing" from all the way back in 1995 and how they haven't aged a day lmao dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10....

Article quote from "Agents of Alienation" by Jaron Lanier

"Well, actually, agent programs as a rule will also have worse user interfaces than non-agent programs.

Here is how people reduce themselves by acknowledging agents, step by step:

Step 1) Person gives computer program extra deference because it is supposed to be "smart" and "autonomous". (People have a tendency to yield authority to computers anyway, and it's a shame. In my experience and observations, computers, unlike other tools, seem to produce the best results when users have an antagonistic attitude towards them.)

Step 2) Projected autonomy is a self-fulfilling prophecy, as anyone who has ever had a teddy bear knows. The person starts to think of the computer as being like a person.

Step 3) As a consequence of unavoidable psychological algebra, the person starts to think of himself as being like the computer.

Step 4) Unlike a teddy bear, the computer is made of ideas. The person starts to limit herself to the categories and procedures represented in the computer, without realizing what has been lost. Music becomes MIDI, art becomes Postscript. I believe that this process is the precise origin of the nerdy quality that the outside world perceives in some computer culture.

Step 5) This process is greatly exacerbated if the software is conceived of as an agent and is therefore attempting to represent the person with a software model. The person's act of projecting autonomy onto the computer becomes an unconscious choice to limit behaviors to those that fit naturally into the grooves of the software model."

Quote from "Agents of Alienation" by Jaron Lanier

"So, why am I enraged by the notion of agents? What galls me aren't just the practical problems, but I'll summarize those first, to get them out of the way:

· If info-consumers see the world through agent's eyes, then advertising will transform into the art of controlling agents, through bribing, hacking, whatever. You can imagine an "arms race" between armor-plated agents and hacker-laden ad agencies. Lovely.

· Since agents are little computer programs, they'll have a lot more in common with each other than people do. Agents would become the new information bottleneck, narrowing the otherwise delightfully anarchic infobahn, which was supposed to replace the broadcast model with something more inclusive.

An agent's model of what you are interested in will be a cartoon model, and you will see a cartoon version of the world through the agent's eyes. It is therefore a self-reinforcing model. This will recreate the lowest-common-denominator approach to content that plagues TV. "You're interested in Balinese ritual, therefore you're interested in travel, therefore you're interested in the Infobahn Travel Game Show!".

· Agents will inevitably deliver an overdose of kitsch. Microsoft's "Bob" is the agent of the moment, and it proposes to the user a life of caricatured meaninglessness, sliding unintentionally into the grotesque, that is straight out of Diane Arbus."

BOARDS OF CANADA @boardsofcanada.bsky.social · 4mo ago

lingo @lingo56.bsky.social · 5mo ago

weee

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lingo @lingo56.bsky.social · 8mo ago

hideo kojima advertising shibuya parco next to a condom store

lingo @lingo56.bsky.social · 10mo ago

turns out if you launch call of duty with any controller connected DLSS just disappears?????

lingo @lingo56.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Met Leonardo Di Caprio and Benicio Del Toro as Alan Wake in @warnerbrospictures.bsky.social official new #OneBattleAfterAnother experience in #Fortnite!

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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 12mo ago

Cool Rez postcard ad card thing from the original release.

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lingo @lingo56.bsky.social · last yr.

finally got water that doesn't look like scrolling jpegs cookin